David Meriwether (Georgia)

David Meriwether (10 April 1755-16 November 1822) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-GA) from 6 December 1802 to 3 March 1807, succeeding Benjamin Taliaferro and preceding George M. Troup.

Biography
David Meriwether was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1755, and he befriended Thomas Jefferson, who later hired his cousin Meriwether Lewis as his personal secretary. Meriwether fought in the American Revolutionary War as a Continental Army lieutenant, and he went on to move to Georgia in 1785. During the 1790s, he served as a tax collector and a state representative before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1802 to 1807 and as a presidential elector in 1817 and 1821. He died in 1822.